If you're new here, why not subscribe to our email updates or follow us on Facebook? You can also add us to your Google Reader. Thanks for visiting!  Note: this review is for book five in a series, and will no doubt contain spoilers Regular readers of this site will know that both my husband and I are ardent fans of Michael Grant’s Gone series. And the...

A chilling series in which the adult population of a small town in California suddenly disappears, leaving the youth to fend for themselves, Michael Grant’s Gone books have made a splash in the YA world. Given their dark themes, it’s perhaps unsurprising that the books have invited comparison with some of the groundbreaking dystopian novels of...

  In Michael Grant’s BZRK, there’s a war taking place. A war at both the macro and nano levels. In my house, whenever a Michael Grant book arrives, a similar war takes place. The battle to be the first to read it. Unfortunately, my fiance is larger than I am, and has rather a smaller to-read pile, so his supremacy in this area is...

Michael Grant is an author who has no problem killing his darlings–and I’m not just talking pretty adjectives here, but whole characters, too. In fact, Grant seems to take rather a good deal of joy in torturing them, tormenting them, and eviscerating them in as gory a manner as possible. While Grant’s characters don’t exactly have a fun...

More than half a year has passed since the adults of Perdido Beach suddenly vanished, leaving a motley horde of juveniles to fend for themselves. In that time these kids have faced devastating hunger, worsening living conditions, internal fractiousness, and eerie preternatural events. But while things have reached an uncomfortable stasis,  with a truce of...